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  • Vol 49 No 10
  • 09/05/2008

It's the price that counts

It is easy to find culprits for the food crisis in Africa, from the West's push for biofuels to China's newly well-fed middle class. The fact is that food supplies are short and prices therefore high in the short term - and probably in the long term to...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

Bush, the farewell tour

President George Bush's five-country African tour on 16-21 February met with varied reactions. He was burned in effigy in Dar es Salaam and praised in Kigali by Irish singer and activist Bob Geldof, who said that Bush has 'done more (for Africa) than any ...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

Not on parade

The planned new military headquarters will stay in Europe because of the widespread hostility to it in Africa

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

Bad marks

Just before President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife, Carla Bruni, set off on their African safari on 27 February to Chad, South Africa and Angola, Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation issued a damning indictment of conditions in France’s former African col...

  • Vol 49 No 2
  • 16/01/2008

Panic, what panic?

The rich world's economies are sick and the looming recession in the United States has already triggered days of panic selling in Western and now Asian markets. Africa is caught in the middle of what many regard as part of a longer term shift of econo...

  • Vol 49 No 2
  • 16/01/2008

Frontier market

Fund managers are keeping one eye on the global market twitches and another on some of Africa’s rockier political systems as they try to assess news risk in 2008. For the last five years, Africa has an enjoyed a favoured but frontier market status.

  • Vol 48 No 25
  • 14/12/2007

Not quite indispensable

Feted in Lisbon, African leaders left the summit frustrated by post-colonial squabbles and the lack of better trade proposals

  • Vol 48 No 25
  • 14/12/2007

Cross patch

Bored with the fractious Euro-African summit in Lisbon on 8-9 December, French President Nicolas Sarkozy used the opportiunity to try to patch up quarrels with Côte d'Ivoire, Rwanda and Angola.

  • Vol 48 No 21
  • 19/10/2007

The Mo Laureate

The great and good have met and argued vigorously over which African head of state should be the first to receive the Mohammed Fathi Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership to be announced on 22 October. For those unable to bear the suspens...

  • Vol 48 No 19
  • 21/09/2007

Boots nearer to the ground

Washington seeks Anglo-French support as it steps up its military presence in Africa

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